In 1962 Elaine de Kooning was commissioned to paint a portrait of President John F. Kennedy to be hung in the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri… De Kooning was one of the early participants in the Abstract Expressionist movement…
(Painter Elaine de Kooning working on John F Kennedy painting in Manhattan studio, 1964, New York, NY. - Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, LIFE)